My first time on acid, I took some mediocre liquid (I think it was beige) with my friends A and B. We each took three hits. We had another friend with us who had agreed to act as our sober driver; we'll call him S. The trip started off great, we were laughing and giggling and looking at the trees. Then we picked up another friend, C, who took two hits IIRC. At this point, A and B decided they wanted another two, so I gave them each two more. We then went over to S's house, and proceeded to jump on his trampoline. This resulted in hilarity and pushed us higher and higher. We chilled in his backyard marveling at the trees in between bouts of trampoline jumping.
Everything changed when S's dad came home. We decided it would be best for us to leave, but we didn't really have a place to go because all of our parents were home by that point and S didn't want to go into the woods and just chill out there. We drove around aimlessly for a while, and A and B started to get more and more anxious. I called some mutual friends and found that my boy D was going to the bowling alley with a few more people. By the time we got to the bowling alley, A and B's trips had turned in a definitively negative direction, but they were still OK with going in there because we thought that maybe we would feel more comfortable in a bigger group of friends doing a fun activity. However, D, S, and our other friends were unfamiliar with psychedelics, but they knew that we were tripping on LSD. Even though they didn't have a problem with acid, they didn't exactly know how to interact with us, especially in a public place. I kept monitoring A and B pretty closely, trying to provide psychological support for them, while C, D, S, and our other friends bowled. Whenever I asked either A and B how they were doing, or if they wanted to talk, they would respond with some permutation of "everything is meaningless." Nonetheless, they managed to just sit there, watching the others bowl, wallowing in their malaise. Perhaps it was my presence sitting next to them and the positive energy I was trying to send out that kept them from freaking out any further.
I don't remember how long our friends bowled; time was pretty much meaningless at that point. After we left the alley and were once again driving around, I asked A and B whether they were feeling any better, and they said that, qualitatively, they weren't, but at least the intensity of the trip was declining. The rest of the night is kind of a blur. C said he was having a good time, but he wasn't tripping very hard. It consisted of a lot of driving around, with stops to eat, meet up with people, and smoke weed. I think we stopped off in the center of my hometown to meet up with some friends, and I believe we also spent some time in Bickford's trying to eat and drink in the hopes that it would sober A and B up. However, I clearly remember the last session before our crew of trippers split up. We were in a group of 8 or 9 people, in the woods next to a park and playground. A few bowls were passed around and all the non-tripping people got quite high. IIRC, this was the largest amount of weed that we had smoked in a single session during the entire trip. We chilled in the woods for a bit after finishing the last bowl, looking at the stars. The non-trippers were getting antsy, so I asked A and B how they felt, and they finally said they had started to feel better and could probably go home soon if necessary. At this point (about 6 hours after we dropped), we gradually split up as people went to different destinations.
I eventually ended up back at home on the comedown, with a newfound respect for the power of psychedelics, and a sense of amazement at how different acid was from mushrooms (the only psychedelic I had tried until that point), yet how similar at the same time. However, I knew from comparing experiences with A and B that I had not attained full effects, and despite their bad trip, I remained interested in trying LSD again, in a better environment. It wasn't the best start to my relationship with acid, but I somehow sensed intuitively that it could be a valuable ally, and opened up a place in my heart and head for it.